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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs stated on Tuesday that Major General Fuad Al-Shobaki the oldest Palestinian detainee in the Israeli jails has turned 80 years.
The Head of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs Qadri Abu Baker, the member of the Central Committee of Fatah Movement Muhammad Al-Madani, Dr. Muhammad Odeh, Reyad Qasrawi and Al-Shobaki's family has lighted a candle of freedom celebrating his 80th birthday. The cartoonist Ossama Nazzal made a portrait for him in this occasion.
Abu Baker stated: "Abu Hazem the oldest detainee in Israeli jails is sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment and he is detained since 2006. He suffers from many diseases and he was exposed to a deliberate medical negligence. The occupation bears full responsibility for his life, especially after refusing to release him, despite recognizing the deterioration of his health condition".
Abu Baker added "it is a shame on all the free people all over the world that Al-Shobaki enters his 80th year in the Israeli jails, while they just watch without taking a serious action towards the violations that he and all detainees are exposed to".
The Commission pointed out that the Military Court of Ofer Prison decided on September 2015 to mitigate his sentence by deducting three years of the sentence to be 17 years of imprisonment. Another session has been held on May 2018 to hear the final sentence, but it was postponed.
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs expressed its deep concern about the increasing medical violations pursued by the administrations of Israeli prisons against sick and wounded detainees who are currently imprisoned in various Israeli jails, in which they are targeted with neglecting their health conditions.
The Commission monitored one of these cases at Ashkelon prison, the case of the 38-year-old detainee Rami Ibrahim Khalil Hijazi, from Tal Al-Hawa southwest of Gaza Strip. Hijazi suffers from a deflection in the spine many years ago, which causes severe pain and hindering his ability to move. The administration of prison gives him painkiller as an alternative of treatment.
The Commission stated that he gets transferred to the clinic of Beersheba prison from time to time to have Physiotherapy sessions, but sometimes Hijazi refuses to go to the clinic, just like his colleges in prison. This refusal is to avert the conditions of transfer by the Bosta car, where they are exposed to degrading treatment and spend long hours setting on iron chairs which worsens his health conditions.
It is worth mentioning that the detainee Hijazi is detained since 2002 and sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment.
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Major General Qadri Abu Baker, the head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs, sent a letter of thanks on Sunday, 24 February 2019 to the Belgian Intal Globalize Solidarity praising its role in advocating the issue of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails.
Abu Baker called on the international solidarity movements to make more efforts to break the international silence, and stated that solidarity events in various places help raising the awareness about the issue of Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails, empower their will and determination, and encourage them to achieve their goals under the pressure practiced against them by the Israeli prisons administration.
It is worth mentioning that the Belgian Intal Globalize Solidarity is an association subordinate to the Belgian Labor's Party (a left-wing party and one of the strongest advocates of the Palestinian issue), which organized an event in headquarter in Aalst on February 16, 2019 that included an explanation of the annual report issued by the Commission of Detainees Affairs. Many members of the Belgian Labor's party, representatives of the Belgian parliament, peace activists and lecturers have participated in the event.
The event ended with signing 15 letters which were sent to the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, calling for releasing all sick and old detainees in addition to female detainees, minor detainees and the long-term detainees who were imprisoned before the Oslo Accord, especially the detainee Kareem Younes being the oldest long-term detainee in the world.
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The advocate of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs, Mo'taz Shqiarat, cited on Tuesday the story of the minor detainee Mohammad Abdullah Hammad,16, from Qalandia camp, in which he was exposed to humiliation and extensive beating during his arrest in 16/1/2019 from his house.
Hammad who still detained at Ofer prison stated that "a number of Israeli soldiers besieged my house in the camp, where many soldiers broke into the house accompanied by horrific dogs. The two dogs attacked me, while the soldiers were holding my family and threatening them with weapons".
He added: "then they handcuffed me, blindfolded my eyes and took me to a settlement called "Kochav Ya'akov". At that time, the soldiers kept beating, cursing and deliberately forcing me to fall down".
"After arriving to the settlement, they transferred me by a military vehicle to Atarot Interrogation Cetner and they forced me to confess guilt with the charge of throwing stones on soldiers at Qalandia military checkpoint, then they transferred me to Ofer prison".
The Commission pointed out that the Israeli occupation with all its authorities are deliberately causing harm, humiliation and abuse against Palestinian detainees, especially children during detention, interrogation and trials.
This is a clear and systematic plan to destroy the Palestinian childhood and its future, where 99% of those who got arrested are exposed to one or more kind of torture, abuse, and humiliation.
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The head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs, Major General Qadri Abu Baker, said that the Israeli crime represented in piracy a robbery of the money of the state of Palestine, which comes under the pretext of deducting the allocations of martyrs and detainees families, will be a real timed bomb.
His statements came in a meeting with delegation from Fatah movement\ Jalazon camp, where Abu Baker explained that the Palestinian leadership headed by President Mahmoud Abbas confirms that the salaries of martyrs and detainees families can't be affected, and that last penny in the budget of the authority will be given to those struggling people.
Major General Abu Baker called the International community to act immediately to put an end to this organized terrorism, resulting from the competition between Israeli politicians, to achieve success in the Knesset elections.
Major General Abu Baker pointed out that this piracy contradicts all international norms and conventions, and the international silence will lead to a confrontation with the occupation. He added that the Palestinian people and leadership will confront this racist extremism and that the occupation and its leadership will pay a high price for these actions.
It is worth mentioning that Jalazon camp northeast of Ramallah is one of the areas that are exposed to daily attacks by the occupation, and that 120 persons from this camp are behind the bars of Israeli jails, in addition to hundreds of released detainees and martyrs.
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On Sunday, February 17, the Israeli government took the unlawful decision of stealing once again Palestinian tax revenues. In response to this brazen robbery, Dr. Hanan Ashrawi issued the following statement on behalf of the PLO Executive Committee:
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A state of tension and outrage prevailed in all sections of Megiddo prison after the abduction of Rabee' Abu Al-lail, the representative of detainees, from his cell without any justifications and transferring him to another section in preparation for transferring him to Nafaha Prison according to the Prison Administration, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs stated on Sunday.
The Commission revealed that the detainees got astonished due to the break in of section 6 at 5:00 am by the Alyamaz, Mitsada and Droor forces, who forcibly took Abu Al-lail out of his cell without allowing him to change his clothes or take anything of his belongings. This act was followed by a break in and a closure to all sections of the prison.
The Commission clarified that detainees responded to this violent attack by knocking on the doors and exclaiming "God is great". In addition, they returned their meals and informed the administration of the prison that if the detainee Abu Elil was not returned to prison, there would be an escalation, noting that the administration has informed detainees at all sections that the aim of this attack is to transfer Abu Al-lail.
The Commission warned of the escalation of attacks against detainees in all prisons, and called the International Community to put an end to the Israeli hatred against detainees, which is increasing with the oncoming Israeli elections. However, detainees are considered a good material for the propaganda of candidates.
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs stated, Quoting the Director General of Palestinian Forensic Medicine Institute Dr. Ryan Al-Ali who participated in the autopsy, that the results showed that Baroud was exposed to a deliberate medical negligence through the past years, and that the main cause of death is MAI due to complete closure in the left coronary artery (heart attack) and other chronic diseases.
Dr. Ali indicated that the martyr Baroud had epidemic hepatitis C, high blood pressure and gastric ulcer last year. He also stated that his health condition was very bad during the past months due to cirrhosis of the last stage, and that his last relapse was diagnosed with bacteremia due to gastric ulcer explosion, in addition to dropsy in the abdomen due to cirrhosis and a chronic kidney failure.
Al-Ali stressed on the need to know all the reasons of the martyrdom of Baroud, to highlight the extent of medical negligence he suffered during the past years, and the wrong medical diagnoses of his health conditions when he entered the hospital before his death.
The advocate of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs Kareem Ajweh stated that the Israeli police informed him about their refusal to hand over the body of the martyr after the autopsy, despite the decision of the court which allowed handing the body.
The Commission of Detainees' Affairs stated that the Israeli occupation authorities and the administration of its prisons bear the full responsibility for Baroud's life.
The commission pointed out that with the martyrdom of Baroud, the number of the martyrs of the Captive Movement increased to 218.
It is worth mentioning that the detainee martyr baroud from Gaza Strip was detained since March 1991, and sentenced to life imprisonment with the charge of killing a settler. He was deprived of family visits since 2000, and his mother passed away without meeting him. He martyred last Wednesday after transferring him from Ramon prison to Soroka Hospital.
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The martyr detainee Fares Ahmad Mohammad Baroud is 51 years old from Al-Shate' camp/ Gaza, he is detained since 23/3/1991
He was arrested with charge of killing a settler and sentenced to life imprisonment.
He had psychological problems and did not receive appropriate care.
He is one of the long-term detainees who were arrested before the Oslo Accord.
He was supposed to be released within the fourth group, but the occupation authorities refused to release him after the negotiations of 2013.
With his martyrdom, the number of martyrs of the captive movement reaches to 218.
He had an internal hemorrhage in 18/11/2018 and he got transferred to Soroka hospital. He was diagnosed with a problem in the artery that feed the liver. He had a surgery to remove this artery and part of the liver.
He was prevented from family visits since 2000.
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs declared that a state of maximum alert prevailed in the Israeli jails in the meantime after the martyrdom of the detainee Fares Baroud (51 years old) from Al-Shate' camp/ Gaza, who got transferred from Ramon prison to Soroka Hospital where he was martyred.
The Commission clarified that the prisons of Nafaha and Ramon was completely closed after announcing the martyrdom of Baroud, where detainees live a state of tension and alert.
The Commission stated that the detainee Baroud was one of the sick detainees, who suffered from a difficult psychological situation. Moreover, he has a surgery at the end of 2018 and removed a part of the liver, due a deliberate medical negligence.
It is worth mentioning that the detainee Fares Baroud was imprisoned since 23/3/1991, and sentenced to life imprisonment with the charge of killing a settler. He was supposed to be released with the last group of long-term detainees, whom the Israeli occupation promised to release during the deal of reviving the negotiations in 2013. However the occupation authorities suspended the release of the fourth group which includes 30 detainees, and refused to free them due to political reasons.
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs announced the martyrdom of the detainee Fares Baroud (51 years old) from Al-Shate' camp /Gaza inside the Israeli jails, after a short time of transferring him from Ramon Prison to one of the Israeli Hospitals.
The commission stated that the reason behind his martyrdom is not clear yet, but he was suffering from deliberate medical negligence over the past years, and that he has not receive any medical care that was supposed to be provided inside the prison.
The commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs states that the administration of Ramon prison and the Israeli government shall hold the responsibility of this crime, which is added to the series of crimes committed against our detainees.
By his martyrdom, the number of the martyrs of the captive movement becomes 218.
It is worth mentioning that the detainee Fares Baroud was imprisoned since 23/3/1991, and sentenced to life imprisonment with the charge of killing a settler. He was supposed to be released with the last group of long-term detainees, whom the Israeli occupation promised to release during the deal of reviving the negotiations in 2013. However the occupation authorities suspended the release of the fourth group which includes 30 detainees, and refused to free them due to political reasons.
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs cites the testimony of the detainee Ammar Mohammad Shakarneh (21 years old) from Nahhaleen village near Bethlehem, who was tortued and beaten by Israeli soldiers during his arrest in 24/1/2019.
Shakarneh told the advocate of the commission that 15 armed soldiers broke into his house at midnight and destroyed all its belongings, and attacked him in a barbaric way all over his body.
He added: "they handcuffed me and blindfolded me, and then they drove me to Betar settlement". He remained in the settlement for 3 hours in the cold weather before being transferred to Itzion detention center.
In addition, the detective hit the detainee, cursed him and threatened him to force him confess guilt.
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The commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs cited on Wednesday, through the advocate Jaclyn Fararjeh, the testimonies of five detainees from the Shakarneh's family from Bethlehem who got abused by the occupation forces during their detention and interrogation at Etzion Detention Center.
The advocate stated that the detainees Omar Muhammad Shakarneh, Ibrahim Sha'ban Shakarneh, Abdullah Ahmad Shakarneh, Ammar Mohammad Shakarneh and Hussam Kamal Shakarneh were brutally beaten and assaulted during their arrest from Nahhaleen village.
The advocate pointed out that they were handcuffed after being arrested, and the soldiers threw them on the ground and started to jump over them as a means of beating. Then they put the five detainees in the military vehicle and continue to beat them until they reach the settlement of "Betar". They remained there for three hours while being handcuffed and blindfolded.
It is noteworthy to say that Etzion Detention Center is one of the worst detention centers of the Israeli occupation army, where detainees are held inside bad rooms filled with insects and rats and got subjected to all types of physical and psychological torture and abuse.
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Warnings from the deterioration of the health conditions of the detainee Abu Dyak
15 detainees at Al-Ramlah Hospital suffer from serious health conditions
The lawyer of the Commission of Detainees' Affairs Kareem Ajweh stated that the health condition of the detainee Abu Dyak is deteriorating by time and that he takes 8 kinds of painkillers.
Ajweh clarified during a visit to Al-Ramlah Hospital that the detainee Abu Dyak suffers from an extreme fatigue, difficulty in breathing, inability to walk and deprivation of sleep for long hours due to the tumor in the stomach and intestines.
The commission stated that the health conditions of sick and wounded detainees in the so called "Ramlah prison clinic" are getting worse due to the lack of medical care for patients who are classified as the most critical among detainees at Israeli jails.
The Commission pointed out that there are 15 sick detainees held in Al-Ramlah Hospital and have serious conditions, namely:
The detainee Sami Abu Dyak has cancer in the intestines
The detainee Mo'tasem Raddad has intestines cancer, heart failure, broblems in the bones, shoulder aches and problems in the vision.
The detainee Nahed Al-Aqra' has many health problems and amputation of the feet.
The detainee Saleh Saleh suffers from hemiplegia.
The detainee Ashraf Abu Al-Huda suffers from paralysis and moves by the wheelchair.
The detainee Khaled Shaweesh suffers from hemiplegia and many chronic diseases.
The detainee Mustafa Daraghmeh suffers from kidney problems and diabetes.
The detainee Ezz-aldeen Karajeh suffers from an injury in the shoulder, foot and pelvis and needs a surgery.
The detainee Ahmad D'iasat suferrs from several shot wounds in his right thigh.
The detainee Waleed Sharaf has liver problems and intestinal infections.
The detainee Mohammad Abu Hwailah has an injury in his left foot.
The detainee Iyad Hraibat uses the wheelchair.
The detainee Mohammad Abu Khader needs a kidney transplant.
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A report issued by the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs stated that the Israeli repression forces "Drour" accompanied with forces from the Israeli police broke into section 17 at Ofer prison, and conducted inspections and missed with the belongings of detainees.
The Commission pointed out that the repression forces have closed ten section in the prison after the breaking in and inspection process, and that a state of tension and disorder prevailed in the prison since the first hours of dawn.
The Commission also stated that the detainees in all sections have returned their meals in a protest against the break in.
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The Arab and Palestinian communities in Berlin have organized a solidarity stand with the Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails at the Potsdamer Platz square in Berlin, with the participation of many institutions.
These ongoing events in Germany come at the time of systematic repression against the Palestinian prisoner movement, and against the practices of prisons' administrations.
The international coordinator of "Samedoun network" Charlotte Keats stressed on the need to promote the international boycott of (BDS) against the state of occupation. This came in support of the struggle of the Palestinian detainees and the rights of Palestinian people, and against the companies and states that support the racist entity of Israel.
Keats called for the solidarity with the Palestinian detainees in facing the attack launched by the Israeli Minister of Defense, Gilad Erdan.
Many European countries and other countries all over the world witness a series of solidarity events in the National Day of solidarity with the detainee Ahmad Sa'adat, which started on January 15 and lasts to January 22.
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The second oldest long-term detainee in Israeli jails, Maher Younis (61 years old) from Arah village, enters his 37th year in jail on Friday. He is currently held at Negev prison, and he's the cousin of Kareem Younes.
Maher Younes was born on January 9, 1958 in Arah village in the occupied territories of Palestine, and he has five siblings. He ended his elementary study in a school in the village and then joined the Agriculture School in Al-Khdaira city. He was arrested by the Israeli army in 18/1/1983 after two weeks of the detention of his cousin Kareem younis. After his interrogation, the military prosecution of the occupying state accused him of belonging to the Fatah movement, illegally possessing weapons, and killing an Israeli soldier. He was sentenced to death penalty with the detainees Kareem Younis and Sami Younis on charges of "betraying the citizenship", since they were holding the Israeli ID and considered Israeli citizens. A month later, the court issued a sentence to life imprisonment instead of the death penalty. In September 2012, the occupation authorities set the life sentence of 40 years for a number of detainees, including Maher Younis.
Yunis was arrested before getting married, and thus he spent his youth in detention without establishing a family. He is also deprived of seeing his siblings' sons and daughters by a decision from the central court of Nazareth. His petition of seeing his father on deathbed in 2008 was rejected, and he did not see his father before passing away.
Younis has conducted an open hunger strike for 10 days on February 25, 2013 in order to highlight the suffering of detainees in Israeli prisons, especially the detainees from the Palestinian occupied territories who are excluded from exchange deals. He ended his strike after the intervention of the President Mahmoud Abbas who promised to put their issue on top priorities.
Younis is one of the detainees who were arrested before Oslo Accord, and one of the detainees who were supposed to be released within the exchange deal in 2013. Israel has released three groups of this deal; including 23 detainees for each group, and then breached the agreement and did not release the forth group, and who was supposed to be released on March 2013.
The forth group (27 detainees) of the exchange deal are still held in Israeli jails, half of them are from the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, including Kareem Younes, Maher Younis, Ibraheem Abu Mokh, Rushdi Abu Mokh, Waleed Daqqah, Ibraheem Bayadseh, Ahmad Abu Jaber, Basheer Khateeb, Ibraheem Ighbaryeh, Mohammad Ighbaryeh, Yahia Ighbaryeh and Mohammad Jabari.
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Ramallah: the occupation authorities arrested (551) Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territories during October 2018,
including (74) minors and (15) females.
Detainees and Human Rights Organizations (the Commission of
Detainees' Affairs, the Palestinian Society Prisoner's Club and
Aldameer Association for Human Rights) pointed out through a
fact sheet issued today that the occupation authorities arrested
(91) citizens from Jerusalem, (61) from Ramallah and Al-Bereh,
(75) from Hebron, (44) from Jenin, (26) from Bethlehem, (45)
from Nablus, (100) from Tulkarem, (28) from Qalqilia, (10)
from Tubas, (9) from Salfit, (10) from Jericho and (12) from
Gaza Strip.
The number of detainees in Israeli jails until October 31, 2018 is
about (6000) detainees, including (52) females, (270) minors
and (430) administrative detainees.
Collective punishment against the Na'alweh's family
Occupation forces still impose a series of collective punishments
against the family of Ashraf Na'alweh from Shwaikeh/
Tulkarem, who is accused of performing "Burkan" attack on
October 7, 2018. Occupation forces are imposing a siege at the
Shwaikeh neighborhood since a month, and break in the area
every day. They arrested (100) citizens form Tulkarem during
October including (11) females.
Other than that, the occupation forces tightened its measures on
checkpoints and towns surrounding Shwaikeh neighborhood, in
addition to the daily storming carried out to inspect people's
houses in the area and other arbitrary procedures that come as a
part of collective punishments practiced by the occupation
forces.
From the perspective of human rights organizations, the
occupation forces take the attack of "Burkan" as an excuse to
impose collective punishment, which is banned in accordance
with article (33) of the Fourth Geneva Convention. There is a
possibility of activating procedures that allow using the most
severe torture against detainees from the family and friends of
Ashraf under the pretext of having information that may help to arrest him.
The contracting parties at the Fourth Geneva Convention call
upon obliging Israel to respect the International Humanitarian
Law and to hold it accountable for the violations and collective
punishments committed against citizens in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Administrative Detention
The military leader issued a new administrative detention order
against the deputy in the Legislative Council Khalida Jarrar for
four months ending in February 28, 2019, where this is the
fourth administrative detention order against Jarrar.
The occupation forces arrested Jarrar from her house in
Ramallah on June 2, 2017, knowing that she was elected as a
member in the Legislative Council since 2006, and was
appointed as a chairman of Detainees Committee at the council.
She is a leading figure in the Palestinian society and a mother of two daughters.
Solitary confinement… the occupation's weapon to abuse detainees psychologically and physically
Solitary confinement for long periods aims at humiliating
detainees, as what happened with the detainee Ibrahim al-Ra'I
on 11/4/1988, who was killed after solitary confinement for nine months.
The occupation's intelligence still isolates the detainee Ibrahim al- Arooj (33 years old) from Bethlehem in difficult conditions.
During his visit by the lawyer he said that he's deprived of family visits and that he's prevented from going out to the
prison's yard without being handcuffed. Whenever he goes to
the clinic or being moved to isolation he must be handcuffed. In
addition, he suffers from the inspections to his cell and
damaging his belongings. The commission also documented the
cruel treatment he was subjected to recently during his transfer
to the Tselmon crossing border to attend the court.
It is worthy to mention that the detainee al- Arooj is the oldest
administrative detainee from Bethlehem, and he is jailed without
a charge since January 25, 2016.
Female detainees at "Hasharon" continue their strike during October
Female detainees at "Hasharon" continue their strike which is
represented in abstaining from going out to the prison's yard, in
a protest against operating cameras in the yard.
The prison administration did not cease to violate the privacy of
female detainees, but they impose humiliating penalties against
them such as depriving some family members of the visit,
preventing them from using hot water and treating them in a bad
manner by the doctors of the clinic.
In support of the females strike, four detainees at Hadareem
prison announced their open hunger strike: Khalil Abu Eram,
Kefah Hattab, Abdulrahman Abu Lebdeh and Ahmad al-Ser.
After more than 50 days of strike, the prison administration
transferred them to Al Damon prison.
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The report of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs showed that the administration of prisons have arrested 497 minors and jailed them at Ofer prison throughout 2018, and that 99% of them were beaten and exposed to ill-treatment during their detention in Israeli interrogation centers.
Among those minors, 232 of them were arrested from their houses, 188 were arrested from the roads, 28 were arrested at military checkpoints, 29 were arrested after summon, 20 due not having a permit and 25 of them were arrested after being shot.
The Commission indicated throughout the report that the total sum of fines imposed on those minors is about 1.018.000 NIS. Moreover, there are 428 minors who were prosecuted with unfair sentences and 3 minors who were sentenced to administrative detention.
The Commission of Detainees states that the issue of children detention is a systematic destruction of the Palestinian childhood, where the occupation authorities practice many violations against them since the first moment of detention. Minors are jailed in very difficult and inhuman conditions that lack the minimum international standards for the rights of children and the rights of prisoners.
It's worth mentioning that 250 child are currently held in the prisons of the occupation, distributed in Ofer and Megiddo prisons.
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs sent on Monday an urgent letter to many international bodies and humanitarian and legal institutions warning about the critical health condition of the sick detainee Sami Abu Dyak, requesting an immediate intervention to save his life before it's too late.
The Commission explained in the letter, which was sent to more than 20 international bodies including the International Quartet, the Office of the European Union, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the World Health Organization, that there is a real anxiety that threatens Abu Dyak's life and that he may die at any moment.
The Commission also stated that the 35-years-old detainee Abu Dyak, who is currently at Al-Ramla Hospital, is suffering from cancer and is living under the policy of medical negligence and procrastination by the Israeli authorities.
The Commission also explained in the letter that Abu Dyak is held in the Israeli jails since 17/7/2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment and 30 years, and that he had a surgery on September 2015 to cut 80 cm of his intestines, in which he got infected. This led to a kidney and lung failure.
The commission stated in its letter that "the Israeli authorities have the full responsibility on Abu Dyak's life, who were exposed to a real medical negligence which led to the deterioration of his health conditions.
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs stated in its report some of the daily situations lived by female detainees at Damoun prison, which show the extent of violations they are exposed to on a daily basis, violate all international treaties, conventions and human rights principles.
The nature of Damoun prison:
Damoun prison is located north of Palestine on the Mount of Carmel in Haifa city. It was established since the British Mandate as a store of cigarettes. The land was owned by the Qurman's family from Haifa, and after 1948 it was seized by Israel and turned into a prison. The infrastructure of it was very bad and there was an order to close it because it lacks the minimum standards of living. However, with the outbreak of Al-Aqsa Intiafda and the increase of Palestinian detainees, it was reopened. It currently holds 500 detainees, most of who are detained on the grounds of illegal entry to the occupied territories, and it contains a section where 53 female detainees are held.
Conditions of female detainees after being transferred to Damoun prison
On November 2018, all political female detainees were gathered at Damoun prison.
- Before transferring female detainees from Al-Sharon prison to Damoun prison, females of Damoun prison got transferred from their sections. They were held at section 6 and then transferred to section 3. They got transferred with 6 phases dating from 31/10/2018 to 7/11/2018.
- The administration of Damoun prison tried to distribute the female detainees on section, but the females refused and asked to choose their sections. As means of protest, they gathered and sit in the yard of the prison and refused to get inside their cells. After negotiations with the prison's administration they were allowed to supervise their own distribution and arrangement of sections.
- There are 53 female detainees at Damoun prison including: one minor female, a deputy in the legislative council, 8 injured females, 22 mothers and wives, 19 female arrested under interrogation, 2 females under the administrative detention and 3 females from Gaza Strip who are prevented from family visits.
- It is worth mentioning that the sentences issued against the female prisoners reached a maximum of 16 years.
- Females are held in sections that contain 13 rooms, and there are 4-8 females in each room. There is a solitary confinement with surveillance cameras, and also there is a room used to educate minors which is opened only once a week.
- Counting is done 4 times a day, and inspection is done twice a day.
- There is no safety for female detainees inside rooms, where beds are so high which resulted in many cases of falling down.
- Regarding water in the section: females buy mineral water from the canteen on their expense.
- Each family is allowed to enter two books in a month after getting a permit.
The yard of the prison
- There are two surveillance cameras in the yard, where female detainees are monitored by jailers. This prevents females from doing exercises and seeing the seeing the sun rays, especially that most of them put on hijabs.
- Female detainees are not allowed to gather in the yard.
- They spend 4 hours in the yard, in which time is distributed to bath tine, director visit and lawyers visits.
- The yard has no ceiling, so the females do not go outside during the rain.
Restrooms
- It is worth to mention that restrooms are located outside the prison's cells, which prevents females to use it in any time. Females are also not allowed to bathe unless at the time of the going to the yard. Females are forced to walk from their rooms through the yard which make them feel embarrassed.
Education
- Female detainees are prevented from obtaining educational material, and lately the prison's administration found some materials and confiscated them.
- There is no library for female detainees, and they did not receive the books brought by female detainees who were jailed at Al-Sharon prison.
- The classroom that was opened for minors' education is very small and does not have a window, and it is only opened once a week.
Medical treatment
- There is a bureaucracy to ask for the entry of specialized doctors from abroad, since it takes a long time to get permission to enter the prison. There is procrastination in transferring sick detainees to hospitals and making operations. A case in point is the case of the detainee Israa Ja'abees, who needs a special suit for the burns in her body and a plastic surgery due to the deformation in her face.
Products and stuff distributed by the prison's administration
- There is no specific list of products that are distributed at sections every month. The list lacks the special needs of females. According to instructions, female detainees must be provided with their own special stuff.
Materials for handcrafts
- Families of detainees are prevented from giving their daughters material for making handcrafts, and only materials from the Committee of the Red Cross are allowed.
Females under arrest
- Any girl under arrest, who is not held in interrogation centers, is transferred between borders of Mascoubya, Ramlah and Al-Sharon in harsh conditions. She is transferred to Damoun prison after one month of arrest. In many cases, girls are held in solitary confinement. A case in point is the detainee Iftikar Zakarneh, who was transferred to Ramlah prison after one month of interrogation.
Conditions of transferring female detainees to courts
- When female detainees are transferred to courts they got tightly handcuffed and treated in bad way.
- Detainees who are prosecuted in military Salem court and Lod court face many troubles due to holding them at Jalamah, Sharon and Ramlah borders in harsh conditions, and the way to court takes 3 hours which is considered a journey of suffering.
- A new achievement is accomplished regarding the transfer process of female detainees. This is due to complaints on transferring detainees who are prosecuted at Jerusalem court and Beersheba court, where previously they were transferred before one day of court date and the detainee remain 3 days in harsh isolation conditions. The new achievement is that the transferring process for female detainees takes only one day.
Family visits
- There are visit request every week, where the representative of the detainees get very busy in applying requests for 53 detainees to enter clothes, books and photographs.
- Regarding the female detainees from Gaza Strip, they are prohibited from family visits due to the siege. After making many requests by the Commission of Detainees Affairs, they got allowed to phone call their families for 45 minutes.
Lawyers' visits
- There is only one room for the lawyers' visits and it is very small, and the lawyer is allowed to visit only 3 detainees.
Administrative detention
The Israeli occupation inherited the administrative detention form the British mandate, where it was the emergency law of the British mandate in 1945 and then was adopted by Israel.
Israel announced the state of emergency in 1948, where the administrative detention is used to arrest Palestinian politicians.
The concept:
It is an arbitrary detention used by the Israeli authorities to arrest persons without any charge. According to the Israeli intelligence, it is a preventive measure to prevent any person from making any breach in the future, and there is no specific period for detention.
The administrative detention is conducted without a prosecution and it is based on an order issued by the military commander of area depending on confidential files.
- Palestinians are detained under administrative detention for long periods under the pretext of "confidential information", which are not known by the detainees or lawyers.
- Although the maximum period of administrative detention is 6 months, it could be prolonged and renewed until further notice. This unjust detention deprives the prisoners of the right to know the information they have been detained for and keeps them in darkness for long periods, since they do not know when they will be released, and sometimes it takes years.
- Female detainees under administrative detention:
1. The detainee Khalida Jarrar: member in the legislative council, she's 55 years old from the city of Ramallah. She was arrested in July 2, 2017. The military commander issued the order of administrative detention against her and it was renewed and extended.
The first extension of the order was in 27/12/2018 to 6 months.
The second extension in 26/6/2018 to 4 months
The third extension in 25/10/2018 to 4 months
The order of administrative detention ends by 28/2/2019.
2. The detainee Fidaa Du'mos (24 years old), is form Bait Ummar near Hebron. She was arrested On May 29, 2018 and was sentenced to 95 days of actual imprisonment. At the day of release, an order of administrative detention to 6 months was issued, it ends by 15/2/2019.
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs stated that the Israeli court of the occupation has prosecuted the 19-years-old Dahoud Manasra from Bani Naim Village to 11 years of imprisonment and compensation of 270.000 NIS, with exchanging the sum of money with 3 actual years of detention in case the compensation is not paid.
The commission also explained that the detainee Manasra, who was arrested on November 6, 2015, is sentenced to a fine of 10.000 NIS.
The occupation authorities have arrested Manasra in 2015 when he was only 16 years old, under the pretext of causing an injury to an Israeli soldier at Bait Aynoun east of Hebron.
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees' Affairs denounced the extremist Israeli approaches in prosecuting Palestinians with high sentences, fines and compensations which are imposed on Palestinian detainees. These approaches emphasize the barbarity of the Israeli judiciary and its consistency with the policies of the Shin Bet and the Israeli intelligence services in causing the greatest damage and imposing punishments against the Palestinians.
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2018 is the year of racist legislations and collective punishments
2018 witnessed a violent attack against detainees in Israeli jails, where the Israeli occupation authorities launched a fierce war against detainees and their families through systematic policies. These policies are represented in the policy of oppression and abuse, breaking into of the detainees' rooms and sections, administrative detention, solitary confinement, medical negligence, the detention of minors, imposition of high fines, preventing visits and prohibition of education.
The Israeli Knesset has witnessed a race among its extremist members in adopting racist and arbitrary laws against Palestinian prisoners, such as deducting salaries of martyrs and detainees, execution of detainees, terminating the funding of detainees medical treatment, displacing detainees' families far from their residence and legislating a law that prohibit the early release of detainees.
Facts and figures
(6489) detention cases during 2018
The Israeli occupation authorities have increased the range of detention against Palestinian people, where the total number of detention cases during 2018 is (6489) cases, including: (1063) minors, (140) females, (6) deputies and (38) journalists.
Moreover, the Israeli courts issued (988) administrative detention orders, and the highest rate of detention was on January with (675) cases.
Geographical distribution of detention cases in 2018
The largest percentage of detention cases was in the west bank cities with (4495) cases, constituting (69.3%) of the total number of arrests during 2018. Then comes Jerusalem with (1803) cases, constituting (27.8%) of the total number. Detention cases also included arrests from Gaza strip with (191) cases, constituting (2.9%) of the total number of arrests.
By the end of 2018, there are (6000) Palestinian detainees, distributed on 22 jails and detention centers, such as: Nafha, Raymond, Jelboa, Negev, Ofer, Megiddo, Hadareem, Al-Ramlah, Ashkelon and Beersheba.
Detainees are distributed as the following:
(250) minors
(54) Females
(8) Deputies in the Legislative Council
(450) administrative detainees
(750) sick detainees who suffer from different diseases, including (200) who need an urgent medical intervention, there are also (34) who have cancer.
(87%) are detainees from West Bank, (8%) from Jerusalem and (5%) from Gaza Strip.
Long-term detainees: there are (48) detainees who spent more than 20 years in jails, including (27) who was arrested before Oslo Accord.
(217) Martyrs of the Prisoners' Movement: (5) detainees died during this year, including those who were in jail and those who died after being arrested; Yaseen Saradeeh, Azeez Ewaisat, Muhammad Anbar, Mohammad Marshood and Mohammad Al-Khateeb. Moreover, occupation authorities have retained the bodies of martyrs directly after killing them in fields without constituting any threat to the Israelis.
(23) Arab detainees who carry the Jordanian and Syrian nationalities are jailed in Israeli prisons.
Palestinian female detainees in jails
The Israeli occupation authorities increased its violations against female detainees during 2018, where the (54) females jailed at Damoon prison suffer from the violent procedures of the prison administration, in addition to the overcrowding in rooms, neglecting their medical cases, depriving them of visits and exposing them to attacks by the Nahshon forces. Moreover, they suffer from the transfer to courts in the light of transferring them from Hasharon to Damoun prison.
Despite the protests of female detainees, the prison administration continues the abusive and provocative procedures against them, and the surveillance cameras are still installed in the prison's yard and inside the sections, which restricts their freedom. (32) Female detainees have refused to go to the yard in a protest against the installation of cameras in Hasharon prison.
Child detainees,, sentences and fines
The international conventions on human rights, especially the Convention on the Rights of the Child, stressed on the necessity of protecting children and their lives and their chances of growth and development. However, the Israeli occupation authorities made killing and arresting Palestinian children their first choice. They still hold (250) minors the vast majority of them are held in Ofer and Majeddo prisons. They Israeli authorities practice the worst policies of torture, repression, the issuance of high sentences and fines, deprivation of family visits and prosecuting them on courts of adults. Moreover, there are nearly 100 minors from Jerusalem who got held in house detention in 2018, which caused serious social, psychological and educational effects on them and on their families.
Administrative detention
Administrative detainees conducted a hunger strike represented in boycotting the occupation courts at all levels since 15/2/2018, due to making the administrative detention a collective punishment for detainees and their families.
The step of hunger strike and the boycott is very supportive to the collective work of administrative detainees through the formation of a committee that speaks on their behalf, as well as the lawyers' commitment of not appearing before courts of occupation. However, nearly (450) administrative detainees are still held in Israeli jails including 6 elected representatives.
Medical negligence
(750) sick detainees are held in occupation prisons, they suffer from different illnesses, including (200) detainees who suffer from serious diseases and need a life-saving surgeries. (34) of them have cancer, and (70) of them suffer from physical and psychological disabilities. In addition, there are tens of wounded detainees who were shot during their arrest.
Detentions and collective punishments
The daily arrests by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinians constitute a flagrant violation of the rules of international humanitarian law, international human rights law.
As part of the policy of collective punishment by the occupying power, several Palestinian families have been targeted to demolish their homes, withdraw work permits and arrest the majority of family members. The occupation state has recently adopted a policy of collective punishment against the Palestinian people, especially the families of martyrs and detainees. This policy is used by the occupation to press on Palestinian families and destroy their lives, to deter them and break their will and to stop the struggle against this racist state.
Hunger strikes
The year 2018 witnessed a battle of will and determination with the so-called "empty stomach battle" inside the Israeli jails. Cases of hunger strikers have increased individually and sometimes some of them have joined in solidarity. All strikes were as protest against the policy of administrative detention, transfer, solitary confinement and medical negligence. In this context, (39) administrative detainees have conducted hunger strike during 2018 protesting against their administrative detention, such as: Rezeq Rjoub and Kefah Khateeb.
Israel racist laws
The year 2018 witnessed a great deal of extremism by the Israeli Knesset in presenting draft laws and racist legislation against the Palestinian people in general and the captive movement in particular, including: a draft law to expel the families of operation executors, the law of deducting money paid by the Palestinian National Authority, the law of preventing the fund of detainees and wounded persons, the law of prohibiting family visits and the law of retaining martyrs bodies.
Targeting Palestinian journalists
The Israeli occupation authorities increased the targeting of Palestinian detainees and arresting activists on social media since the outbreak of "Al-Quds intifada" on October 2015. It witnessed an unprecedented repression of the freedom of opinion and expression. The occupation forces have arrested more than (40) journalists and tens of violations against them were recorded. (27) Journalists are still held in Israeli jails in an attempt to deter them and preventing them of saying the truth. They also arrested more than (350) Palestinian citizens during 2018, including females, children, journalists and authors due to posts on social media.
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The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs documented in its report on Thursday the testimonies of 5 detainees, who narrate the details of torture and degrading treatment they were exposed to during their arrest and interrogation in Israeli detention centers.
In this context, Obada Qnais (16 years old) narrates his detention conditions, indicating that he was arrested after the occupation forces broke into his house in Ayda camp near Bethlehem. He was beaten and slapped on the face in front of his family, and then transferred to Al- Maskoubya detention center to interrogate him. During his existence at the interrogation cell, interrogators deliberately humiliated him and forced him to sit handcuffed on the chair and did not allow him to go to the restroom. He remained at the same situation all the day. Later, he was transferred to the minors' section at Ofer prison.
The occupation army attacked the 16-years-old Mohammad Sbaih after breaking into his house in Khader village near Bethlehem. He was transferred to Itzion detention center for interrogation; while they intended to yell at him and frighten him in order to force him confess guilt. He was also forced to go out of the interrogation cell and stay outside in the cold weather for 6 hours before transferring him to Ofer prison.
The Israeli soldiers tortured the minor detainee Qais Jamous (16 years old) during clashes broke out in his hometown Qalqilia. He was attacked by many soldiers who beat him in an arbitrary way. He was then transferred to Are'ail interrogation center and then to the minors' section and Megiddo prison.
The report also showed that the Israeli occupation forces severely beat Mohammad Bahsh (21 years old) and Mohammad Shakhsheer (20 years old) from the city of Nablus. This happened during breaking into their houses and arresting them. They were transferred to Megiddo prison.